31 October 2023 Astrophotography Equipment List (10/31/2023) A lot of people have asked me what my full equipment list for my astro photos looks like. I first started with a Celestron NextStar SE 6" Schmidt Cassegrain telescope. I ended up
23 October 2023 / Astro To Space!! I'm starting something that I have always dreamed about doing since I was a kid: Astronomy / Astrophotography... Ok, astronaut, but that ship has sailed. Since May, I'm taken on a couple of telescopes
29 March 2023 / Salesforce Salesforce Files Trigger Execution order Content Objects trigger execution order
20 November 2022 / Snippets Thanks archive.org! So, I migrated my ghost blog from an old DO droplet to a new instance, and I failed to restore all of the images...
10 November 2022 / Snippets Python Script for monitoring WiFi I've been having some issues with one of my Access Points so I "forked" a python script that will monitor connectivity continuously and write out when and for how long it drops. Here's
19 November 2020 / Thoughts The Internet and the Ox As noted on Wikipedia, Aristotle is the first person credited with having written about the "wisdom of the crowd". I'm going to rely pretty heavily on this article in the beginning of this
30 June 2020 / Tech Gist for blocking annoying content Adding a link to a gist I'm going to be updating with different methods to block some annoying stuff like sponsored or promoted content and ads, where ad blockers seem to not work
18 March 2020 / Tech Playing with Data (COVID-19) Architecting, building, and deploying a data visualization of the spread of COVID-19 over time.
22 March 2019 / Snippets Salesforce Useful JSP pages * Display request headers that Salesforce receives (does not require login) https://login.salesforce.com/smth.jsp * Client speed / performance test (requires login) /speedtest.jsp * List of trusted certificate authorities: /cacerts.jsp (works with
22 March 2019 / Snippets Log out from Apex Log a user out via Apex when logged in as another user: delete [Select Id from AuthSession WHERE UsersId =: UserInfo.getUserId() AND SessionType='SubstituteUser']; Session Types SESSION TYPE DESCRIPTION API Created when accessing
10 November 2017 oAuth Configurations Gist Super useful list of default oAuth configurations for different service providers: oAuthd authentication configurations 23andme { "name": "23AndMe", "desc": "23andMe is a personal genetics service. 23andMe offers individual genome and DNA testing and information.
17 September 2017 Hellas (Ellada) aka Greece This fall, my wife and I decided to take the trip of a lifetime and landed on going to Greece. We will be visiting Athens, Rhodes, Crete, Santorini, and Mykonos. This time, instead
1 August 2017 / Certbot Automating JKS Certificate Renewal Automating JKS file generation via Bash This is part 2 / LetsEncrypt + Salesforce Communities Update, I will be creating a new post outlining using Acme.sh instead of CertBot. Acme.sh has better scripting
29 July 2017 / Certbot LetsEncrypt + Salesforce Communities Part 1: So, as a proof of concept, I was interested in setting up a Salesforce Customer Community, with a custom domain and use an SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt, since LetsEncrypt is free.
21 February 2016 / Lets Encrypt SSL via LetsEncrypt As a POC, I wanted to try out enabling SSL support for my site (and because it's just good practice). This tutorial was excellent DigitalOcean. Looking forward to using LetsEncrypt on more projects.
5 January 2015 / Iceland Dashing Through the Snow Admit it, when you read the title of this post, you sang it in your head a little bit, didn't you? On our way back to Reykjavik, we decided to try to stop
5 January 2015 / Iceland Pièce de Résistance I'm not going to talk much here, but instead just say this: The auroras the night of January 2nd and morning of January 3rd were incredible. Clear and strong enough to be photographed
4 January 2015 / Iceland Fred. Before I post more about the wonderous and mystical auroras and landscapes that can be found in Icelend, I wanted to introduce you to Fred. Fred likes to make faces at people.
3 January 2015 / Iceland Activity Level 4 On my phone, I have an Aurora Forecast app. It labeled the 2nd and 3rd as activity levels 4 and 5 (5 is the highest). Actually, let me first preface this with a
3 January 2015 / Iceland A Beach Covered in Diamonds When we got to the Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon, we first went to the glacier side (the road is smack in the middle of the glacier and beach where it flows to it's inevitable
3 January 2015 / Iceland A Study in Photogenics After Dyrhólaey, we treked farther east and hooked north, around the other side of the volcano and glacier national park (photos coming soon). We stayed at quite the photogenic farm. This ended up
